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Chinese Fried Noodles and Pork

Here's how you make Chinese Fried Noodles and Pork
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 25m
  • Cook: 10-12m
    • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • Chinese soba noodles (roughly about 1/2 pound fresh, or other fresh Chinese or Asian medium noodles of your choice)
  • 1/2 cup cold water
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1/2 to 3/4 pound pork tenderloin (or 1/2 pound boneless chicken thighs)
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce, light
  • 1 teaspoon rice wine (or 1 teaspoon dry sherry)
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1 scallion (cut into 1 inch pieces)
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1/2 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced
  • 9 tablespoons oil (peanut oil)
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 head Chinese cabbage, shredded
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce, dark
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch (dissolved in 1 tablespoon cold water)
  • Fresh spinach leaves (2 large bunches, washed)
  • 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Drop noodles into boiling water, and cook about 4 minutes. Add cold water, and bring to boil for 1 minute. Rinse with cold running water, drain, mix with sesame seed oil, and set aside.

  • Step 2: Cut pork crosswise and julienne.

  • Step 3: Mix with 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, the wine, and the cornstarch.

  • Step 4: Stir-fry scallion, garlic, ginger and pork in 2 tablespoons heated oil until meat is just cooked through, around 2 minutes. Add other tablespoon light soy sauce and sugar, remove, and keep warm.

  • Step 5: In clean wok, stir-fry cabbage in 2 tablespoons heated oil at 400F for 2 minutes, remove, and wipe out wok. Heat 3 tablespoons oil in wok, and add noodles (Do NOT stir). Let noodles brown on bottom (about 5 minutes), then turn noodle cake over. Brown other side in same manner, and remove to warm platter.

  • Step 6: Heat 1 tablespoon oil in wok, and add pork, cabbage, and dark soy sauce. Stir-fry until thoroughly heated. Add cornstarch mixture, stir until thickened. Pour over noodles.

  • Step 7: Wipe out wok. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in wok until smoking hot (400F). Wilt spinach, add salt and pepper, and stir-fry quickly for 10 seconds.

  • Step 8: Arrange spinach around mound of covered noodles. Serve.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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